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The most recent, biggest -hitting news about Pink Floyd, direct from http://www.brain-damage.co.ukNew book announced: Pink Floyd - Captured Through Timehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/7VpHIAuWtQg/new-book-announced-pink-floyd-captured-through-time.html
WymerUK.co.uk (https://www.wymeruk.co.uk/webshop/collector-s-items/pink-floyd-captured-through-time/). The book will not be available to purchase elsewhere, so this will be the only place you'll be able to get a copy.
Shown here is the cover of the book, along with some examples of pictures from within its pages. Click the thumbnails to see the images in greater detail. The pictures show, in clockwise order: the cover, the band in 1970 on stage, Roger Waters in 1977 during the Floyd's In The Flesh tour, and Richard Wright from 1972.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/7VpHIAuWtQg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:21:31 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/new-book-announced-pink-floyd-captured-through-time.htmlTwo-part Mojo Magazine Pink Floyd special - part one out nowhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/t0l_JdeXGtU/two-part-mojo-magazine-pink-floyd-special-part-one-out-now.html
MOJO magazine's two-part Pink Floyd special collectors' edition (https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-specials/emojespc/collectors-series-pink-floyd-bundle) is on sale now in UK stores. Housed in a gatefold card sleeve, with a mirrored prism on the front, and Atom Heart Mother's Lulubelle III pictured on the inside when opened up, the magazine covers the early period in the band's history: 1965-1973.
The editor, Mark Blake (he of the excellent Pigs Might Fly biography of the band) has put together the pair of 132 page magazines in part to tie in with the upcoming tour of Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets that begins on March 12th in Vancouver. The publications pull together interviews and articles printed over the many years of MOJO magazine, and accompany them with many rare and previously unseen images of the band, to help trace the journey from the band's first steps, through to The Dark Side Of The Moon.
There were certainly a healthy number of pictures which I'd not seen before, and refreshingly for a special publication such as this, there is no advertising within its pages to artificially inflate the page count. Both parts should be worthwhile purchases for Floyd fans, providing plenty to read, and lots of visual entertainment too.
The second part, also known as Edition 2, will be available in UK stores from April 4th, and covers the period of 1974 to the present day. As you'll see from the image here, the cover of the second part has the band lurking behind a hole in the Wall...
Edition 1 is in UK stores now, and will be available in selected locations worldwide as an import, in due course. Alternatively, you can buy it online (again, worldwide) through these links at the publishers:
Specially priced bundle to buy Edition 1 (1965-73), and pre-order Edition 2 (1974-2019) (https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-specials/emojespc/collectors-series-pink-floyd-bundle)
or
The link to buy Edition 1 (1965-73) only (https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-specials/emojespc/collectors-series-pink-floyd-edition-1)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/t0l_JdeXGtU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:55:29 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/two-part-mojo-magazine-pink-floyd-special-part-one-out-now.htmlNick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets adds further shows in Europe, July 2019http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/VYWt8G6LN_8/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets-adds-further-shows-in-europe-july.html
Some hopefully excellent news for our friends in Europe - Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets have added another 8 shows to their summer tour this year, including five concerts in Italy, plus Malta, France, and The Netherlands. These are in addition to the other European shows, already announced, in Germany, Switzerland and France.
Tickets for these new shows go on sale on Monday, February 11th, at 10am CET, with the exception of the Lyon concert which is March 15th, at 3pm CET, and the addition of these dates means the July 2019 schedule now looks like this:
July 3rd - Wiblingen Sommerkonzerte, Kloster Wiblingen, Ulm, Germany (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-3rd-kloster-wiblingen-ulm-ulm-germany.html) - TICKETS (
https://www.eventim.de/noapp/tickets.html?fun=evdetail affiliate=EVE doc=evdetailb key=2370845$11519031)
July 5th - Augusta Raurica Open Air, Augst, Switzerland (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-5th-augusta-raurica-open-air-augst-swite.html) - TICKETS (
http://www.z-7.ch/event.php?eventid=1673)
July 6th - Les Ar&egrave;nes de N&icirc;mes, N&icirc;mes, France (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-6th-les-arenes-de-nimes-nimes-france.html) - TICKETS (
https://adamconcerts.trium.fr/index.php/14/manifestation/16997)
July 8th - Arena La Civitella, Chieti, Italy (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-8th-arena-la-civitella-chieti-italy.html) - TICKETS (https://www.livenation.it/show/1249963/nick-mason-s-saucerful-of-secrets/chieti/2019-07-08/it)
July 10th - Pjazza San &#288;or&#289;/St George's Square, Valetta, Malta (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-10th-pjazza-san-gorg-st-georges-square-valetta.html) - TICKETS (https://www.kultura.mt/event/305)
July 14th - Palazzo Mauro de Andr&eacute;, Ravenna, Italy (30th Ravenna Festival) (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-14th-palazzo-mauro-de-andre-ravenna.html) - TICKETS (https://www.livenation.it/show/1249964/nick-mason-s-saucerful-of-secrets/ravenna/2019-07-14/it)
July 16th - Cavea, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-16th-cavea-auditorium-parco-della-musica-rome.html) - TICKETS (https://www.livenation.it/show/1249968/nick-mason-s-saucerful-of-secrets/roma/2019-07-16/it)
July 17th - Arena Santa Giuliana, Perugia, Italy (Umbria Jazz Festival) (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-17th-arena-santa-giuliana-perugia-italy.html) - TICKETS (https://www.livenation.it/show/1249969/nick-mason-s-saucerful-of-secrets/perugia/2019-07-17/it)
July 18th - Piazza della Loggia, Brescia, Italy (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-18th-piazza-della-loggia-brescia-italy.html) - TICKETS (https://www.livenation.it/show/1249970/nick-mason-s-saucerful-of-secrets/brescia/2019-07-18/it)
July 20th - Freilichtb&uuml;hne, Loreley, St. Goarshausen, Germany (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-20th-freilichtbuhne-loreley-st-goarshausen-ge.html) - TICKETS (https://www.wiv-ticket-shop.com/en/night-of-the-prog-festival-xiv/)
July 21st - Th&eacute;&acirc;tre antique de Lyon, Fourvi&egrave;re, Lyon, France (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-21st-theatre-antique-de-lyon-fourviere-lyon-f.html) - TICKETS (https://www.nuitsdefourviere.com/)
July 23rd - RAI Theatre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/july-23rd-rai-theatre-amsterdam-the-nether.html) - TICKETS (https://www.ticketmaster.nl/event/236035)
Some great venues there - historic, picturesque, and should be very memorable shows!
As normal, we have been busy setting up a dedicated page for each of these three concerts which, with your assistance, will have all sorts of useful information, pictures, reviews and more. The pages can be found in the Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets 2019 Tour Zone (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2019/index.php).<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/VYWt8G6LN_8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets-adds-further-shows-in-europe-july.htmlPink Floyd singles rarities - details sought for second edition of bookhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/gl82YErnzlw/pink-floyd-singles-rarities-details-sought-for-second-edition-of.html
excellent book Pink Floyd On Forty-Five (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/books/pink-floyd-on-forty-five-charles-beterams-2.html) which detailed all the then-known Pink Floyd 7inch singles in the world.
Enlisting the help of other major PF singles collectors, such as BD's friend Herv&eacute; Denoyelle, this incredible book was the result of their relentless hard work, their research, and the many years some of them have spent in dusty record shops in far-flung corners of the globe. In the book are entries from some unexpected countries, as well as extensive discographies of 7inch singles from Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the USA.
The most visually interesting items tend to be concentrated in Japan and also around Northern Europe - Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany and France, with the dramatically varied picture sleeves the different countries offered. The original book is full of high quality, well-printed images (well over 1,200 of them!) on glossy paper, showing two singles per page (including the single's cover, if appropriate, and both sides of the single/both labels).
However... since then not only have we seen some interesting new releases such as the 1965: Their First Recordings double pack 7inch, but also quite a number of previously 'lost' or 'unknown' old, original releases have been discovered.
All the new entries - nearing 75 so far - will be included in a second edition of this definite guide, to be published in due course.
Here's where YOU can possibly help: Charles is looking for additional information on any singles that are not in the first book, which he can include in the new edition, scheduled for Springtime. If you have any Floyd group or solo singles that you think might be slightly unusual (particularly if you have the first edition of the book, and know that the item(s) in question isn't in it), please send details to him at charlesbeterams@xs4all.nl (mailto:charlesbeterams@xs4all.nl?subject=PF on 45 - additional info).<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/gl82YErnzlw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:42:32 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/pink-floyd-singles-rarities-details-sought-for-second-edition-of.htmlExhibition touring Germany: "Hipgnosis. Daring to Dream."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/49UKWblPEVM/exhibition-touring-germany-hipgnosis.-daring-to-dream.html
Kunsthalle L&uuml;neburg (https://www.kulturbaeckerei-lueneburg.de/ausstellungen/hipgnosis/). From March 15th, it can be found at the K&uuml;stenmuseum Wilhelmshaven.
Our thanks to Michael Nickel for his help in bringing the following information and translation of the exhibition synopsis to you:
The revolution of the cover design:
The British graphics agency Hipgnosis created record covers in the 1970s that became museum masterpieces. From 19th January to 24th February 2019, the Kunsthalle L&uuml;neburg will be showing a selection of the most important record covers in the history of music by the legendary graphics studio of Aubrey Powell in large screen prints as well as numerous photographs by the founder of Hipgnosis.
1968 is considered the core year of the cultural revolution. It is also the year of birth of Hipgnosis, the legendary British photo design studio founded by Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson.
Powell and Thorgerson worked together for fifteen years (1968-1983) under the umbrella of Hipgnosis. At this time, they designed more than 350 record covers, including some of the most famous in music history: The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Houses of the Holy, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Scratch.
With creative, often surreal visual concepts, subversive humour and radically innovative photo design approaches, Powell and Thorgerson created a whole new way of album cover design. Instead of classical musician portrait photos, their complex photographic compositions creatively leaned creatively on the musical ideas contained in the case. Or they were pursuing an entirely independent image idea that would cause a stir and make the album known - like the cover to Atom Heart Mother showing only a cow in a pasture. These works, described by Powell and Thorgerson as anti-cover, did not refer to the bands or the content of the music. In part, the covers were proposed to several bands at the same time, which Robert Plant took with humour: What a bunch of daring gamblers you are.
Powell and Thorgerson had both studied photography and film at art colleges, revered Duchamps, Magritte, Man Ray, and Dali. Their surreal pictorial concepts and often epic photo landscapes testify to these elective affinities. With their uncompromising visionary ideas, they turned album cover design into popular art that outlasted time, inspired millions of people worldwide, and influenced generations of photo designers in their work.
The exhibition shows a selection of the most famous Hipgnosis album covers in large screen prints that were previously shown in Berlin and San Francisco. There's also a series of black and white shots of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Foreigner and Paul McCartney.
German television station NDR did a short piece on the exhibition, which can be viewed through this direct link (https://classic.ardmediathek.de/tv/Kulturjournal/Hipgnosis-revolutionierten-Plattencove/NDR-Fernsehen/Video?bcastId=3487828 documentId=59595420). Po is interviewed, although much of his conversation is obscured with a German translation, rather than subtitles.
There's also the following piece, which concentrates on an introduction by Po to their work, conducted during the Berlin staging toward the end of last year:<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/49UKWblPEVM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:41:13 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/exhibition-touring-germany-hipgnosis.-daring-to-dream.htmlDavid Gilmour talks about the upcoming guitar auctionhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/k9Dpfn50Jf8/david-gilmour-talks-about-the-upcoming-guitar-auction.html
Following on from yesterday's news that David Gilmour is auctioning off over 120 of his guitars at Christie's, New York, to raise money for charitable causes, he has been talking about the reasons behind his decision, and about the significance of the instruments.
First, he has been speaking to RollingStone.com (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/pink-floyd-david-gilmour-interview-guitar-charity-auction-779721/) about the auction. In the interview, he mentions that he'll still keep hold of around 20 guitars, but the process of getting rid of the bulk of them is something he has been intending to do for quite some time. The raising of a decent amount for charity is something key to the endeavour for him.
These guitars have been very good to me, he told Rolling Stone. They're my friends. They have given me lots of music. I just think it's time that they went off and served someone else. I have had my time with them. And of course the money that they will raise will do an enormous amount of good in the world, and that is my intention.
As Rolling Stone points out, the auction&rsquo;s proceeds will benefit Gilmour's charitable foundation, which he's been running for decades. He said: The money will be going to the larger needs of famine relief, homelessness and displacement of people throughout the world. We are going to work on the best way and the best balance of making what this raises do as much good on this planet as it can.
Read the whole interview here (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/pink-floyd-david-gilmour-interview-guitar-charity-auction-779721/), and below is a video in which he talks about certain key instruments:<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/k9Dpfn50Jf8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:39:54 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/david-gilmour-talks-about-the-upcoming-guitar-auction.htmlDavid Gilmour guitar auction - own a historic instrument!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/5oLsZrX_QPk/david-gilmour-guitar-auction-own-a-historic-instrument.html
Christie's Auction House in New York (http://www.christies.com/DavidGilmour) is auctioning highlights from the personal guitar collection of David Gilmour this year, on 20th June. Comprising more than 120 guitars, Gilmour's collection focuses on a selection of his preferred Fender models including Broadcasters, Esquires, Telecasters and Stratocasters, led by a guitar as iconic and recognisable as the historic performances for which it was used - the 1969 Black Strat.
Detailing the musical history of one of the world's most influential guitarists, the sale will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of guitars to be offered at auction. All sale proceeds will benefit charitable causes. Estimates range from $300 to $150,000, appealing to a wide spectrum of guitar aficionados, fans and collectors alike, but we suspect these estimates are fairly modest in a number of instances.
Thankfully, and in an excellent gesture to David's fans, a global tour of the collection will launch in London at Christie's (London, United Kingdom) in King Street from March 27th-31st where the full collection will be on display, followed by a display of highlights of the collection in Los Angeles May 7th-11th, and then there will be the New York sale preview (ahead of the auction itself) from June 14th-19th. During the exhibitions, the sound experience will be provided by Sennheiser.
David explained: These guitars have been very good to me and many of them have given me pieces of music over the years. They have paid for themselves many times over, but it's now time that they moved on. Guitars were made to be played and it is my wish that wherever they end up, they continue to give their owners the gift of music. By auctioning these guitars I hope that I can give some help where it is really needed and through my charitable foundation do some good in this world. It will be a wrench to see them go and perhaps one day I'll have to track one or two of them down and buy them back!
More details, including the tour of the exhibition, can be found at www.Christies.com/DavidGilmour (http://www.christies.com/DavidGilmour).<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/5oLsZrX_QPk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:21:17 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/david-gilmour-guitar-auction-own-a-historic-instrument.htmlRichard Wright/Dave Harris: Zee - Identity deluxe box set, remastered CDshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/qT4M5vrgMi4/richard-wright-dave-harris-zee-identity-deluxe-box-set-remastere.html
Burning Shed (https://burningshed.com/index.php?route=product/search filter_name=zee filter_sub_category=true) where you can buy the deluxe box set (which includes a second CD of unreleased mixes and demos, lyric book, reproduction promo photos and press release, and is signed by Dave Harris), the CD with bonus tracks, in a choice of packaging, and a choice of signed/unsigned, plus a variety of posters (again, signed if you wish). Orders were being taken at PledgeMusic.com (https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/richard-wright-dave-harris-zee) but now Burning Shed are offering these signed and limited editions, you may choose to use them instead.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/qT4M5vrgMi4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:48:02 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/richard-wright-dave-harris-zee-identity-deluxe-box-set-remastere.htmlHyde Park Free Concerts - were you there?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/MDM6EfOAfck/hyde-park-free-concerts-were-you-there.html
BD reader Greg Taylor, long-time fan of the band and lucky enough to have witnessed several early concerts including shows with Syd Barrett, is seeking any recollections, however small, from any of the early Hyde Park Free Concerts.
Greg wants to start with the first show in 1968 with anyone connected with the event as a fan of Pink Floyd or any other artists who performed. The early creative involvement of Blackhill Enterprises was key to the early shows so if you have any scraps of information on any of the people involved in hosting the event it would be most welcome.
Greg is interested in doing a feature on Hyde Park &rsquo;68 &ndash; the whole concert and memories of subsequent ones too with peoples individual experiences, what they did there and who they met. Vivid details, however trivial will help create a sense of place and time for those pivotal events in rock history.
Please get in touch with Greg on his UK phone number of 07751 790646 or email gmtgst@mail.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/MDM6EfOAfck" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:07:59 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/hyde-park-free-concerts-were-you-there.htmlPink Floyd's Wish You Were Here multichannel SACD reissuedhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/4onEP5PBnd8/pink-floyds-wish-you-were-here-multichannel-sacd-reissued.html
read our indepth analysis of this release, which includes an exclusive interview with James Guthrie, here (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/albums/pink-floyds-wish-you-were-here-sacd-review-and-interviews-including-james-gu.html).
The SACD can now be ordered from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07KH17MHF/braindamage-20), Amazon Canada (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07KH17MHF/braindamageon-20) or direct from Acoustic Sounds (https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/133316/Pink_Floyd-Wish_You_Were_Here-Hybrid_Multichannel_SACD). However, due to the Acoustic Sounds shipping policy, and the possibility of customs duty and suchlike being added on, international orders are better placed with Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07KH17MHF/braindamage-21), , Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07KH17MHF/braindamageon-21), Amazon Germany (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07KH17MHF/braindamage0f-21), Amazon Spain (http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B07KH17MHF/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 tag=braidama01-21 linkCode=as2 camp=3626 creative=24822 creativeASIN=B07KH17MHF) and Amazon Italy (http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B07KH17MHF/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=3370 creative=24114 creativeASIN=B07KH17MHF linkCode=as2 tag=bradamonl-21), or with
JPC.de (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/pink-floyd-wish-you-were-here/hnum/8897210). With the fluidity of pricing, it is worth checking around for the best deal.
To get you in the mood, here's an absorbing ten minute documentary, which includes James Guthrie talking about the new version, and in particular a piano part played by Richard Wright. It also has comments from Storm Thorgerson, who reveals the dilemma over how to do a new but old version of the cover artwork, and explains how they came up with the idea to return the original pictures to the elements represented. So, the picture of the burning man gets burnt itself, the splashless diver picture is itself under water, and so on.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/4onEP5PBnd8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:47:43 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/pink-floyds-wish-you-were-here-multichannel-sacd-reissued.htmlFloyd Room: a place to warm your bones beside the fire... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/nCDtlvd_jbQ/floyd-room-a-place-to-warm-your-bones-beside-the-fi.html
For Pink Floyd fans, a small accommodation in Croatia may quite easily be the most enjoyable, immersive, and memorable place to hang your coat while taking in one of the world&rsquo;s top tourist destinations. Floyd Room has been open in its original form since 2007 though it took shape as a Pink Floyd themed stay last summer. We spoke with owners Boris and Iva Ple&scaron;a about their business
and the band that inspired it.
Brain
Damage: How did you come up with the idea for Floyd Room?
Boris Ple&scaron;a: It was something we dreamt
about for a long time. We love music and we love to travel. We met so many
wonderful people on our travels and we realized that music transcends national
barriers very easily and helps people understand each other &ndash; even if they
don&rsquo;t speak the same language.
We&rsquo;ve
been huge Pink Floyd fans for most of our lives and we always wanted to share
that energy with the world. Pink Floyd touched our lives deeply and in so many
ways. When we started to renovate the apartments last year we realized there
was a chance to finally do something about this dream.
There
are two studio apartments at our place and they share a lounge where people have
always visited to relax and meet other people so we thought it was a good idea
to make this room a special place, a room filled with Pink Floyd-inspired
wonders and a place where people can get to know each other. It was a perfect fit.
Basically,
studio apartments stayed the same - except they&rsquo;re completely renovated and
modernized: their interior is minimalist, private, and with very few Floyd
references. But this front room became a Floyd Room, hence the name.
BD:
When did you open Floyd Room?
BP:
We started renting the rooms as short term rentals in 2007. Last summer we decided
it was time to renovate it completely and at that point we started to think about
this Pink Floyd-inspired idea we had in mind for years.
BD:
Have any members - either the core members (Mason, Gilmour, Waters, and
Wright) or any of the band's studio musicians or touring members (Carin,
Wallis, Page, Pratt, etc.) - stayed at the Floyd Room or in its previous
incarnation before it took the Pink Floyd theme on?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/nCDtlvd_jbQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Sun, 30 Dec 2018 01:00:00 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/other-related-interviews/floyd-room-a-place-to-warm-your-bones-beside-the-fi.htmlNick Mason awarded CBE in British New Year's Honours Listhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/xQJteupyNcQ/nick-mason-awarded-cbe-in-british-new-years-honours-list.html
Our hearty congratulations to Nick Mason, who has just been awarded the honour of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the British New Year's Honours list, which has now been announced.
Nick is receiving the award for services to music.
The awards are to recognise the achievements and service of people across the United Kingdom, and whilst New Year's Day being the official day of announcement, the recipients are normally revealed a few days earlier. The awards are presented by the Queen, or one of her family representing her, in a formal ceremony normally held at Buckingham Palace.
Again, our congratulations to Nick for this deserved recognition!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/xQJteupyNcQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:21:18 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/nick-mason-awarded-cbe-in-british-new-years-honours-list.htmlMartin Popoff's Pink Floyd: Album by Albumhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/JyX2IJGdlRI/martin-popoffs-pink-floyd-album-by-album.html
2018, (and this past summer in particular), was a busy time for Pink Floyd fans. A Saucerful of Secrets toured, the exhibition Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains opened in Dortmund, and Nick Mason&rsquo;s box set Unattended Luggage was released &ndash; all of this was met with a wave of reviews and interviews that pulled it all together. Among these important events, acclaimed rock music writer Martin Popoff released an exquisite collection of unique perspectives, angles, and unconventional takes on Pink Floyd&rsquo;s catalogue in his book Pink Floyd: Album by Album. It is, hands down, one of the year&rsquo;s best books on classic rock music.
Since the early 1990s, Martin Popoff has built a massive volume of authoritative writing on classic rock, hard rock, and heavy metal bands. While many authors add to the outer periphery of an already-established and dense body of historical work, Popoff has added to its fundamental core through a synthesis of fresh and unusual narratives &ndash; something he has achieved by collaborating with distinct groups of rock music connoisseurs, weaving unconventional, exhaustive perspectives together and challenging our relatively settled views on the history of these rock bands.
Pink Floyd: Album by Album spans interviews with musicians, rock journalists, production experts, radio hosts, and others: what they all have in common is the type of passion that transcends a thin, linear perspective on the band&rsquo;s history. If you are looking for a volume with diverse and strongly dimensional accounts of the band&rsquo;s influence and relevance, Popoff&rsquo;s effort is required reading and a resource you will not want to overlook.
Dennis Dunaway, Paul Kehayas, and Craig Bailey tackle the early years of Pink Floyd, stitching together the perspectives of a radio host who has dedicated his career on the airwaves to the band, a soundtrack expert with a keen perspective of a band with tremendous cinematic flair, and a musician whose penchant for Barrett era Pink Floyd helped catapult the band&rsquo;s impact far beyond the boundaries anyone could have anticipated.
Pink Floyd had a profound impact on Dunaway&rsquo;s career and, through that, on rock history: Dunaway was the original bassist for Alice Cooper during the band&rsquo;s formative years and has remained a presence around related side projects (in addition to his own) through our present time.
Pink Floyd&rsquo;s Barrett era helped shaped Alice Cooper immensely. As original Alice Cooper drummer Neil Smith has stated in an interview with music journalist Dave Swanson, &ldquo;the style of the band at this point was heavily indebted to the first Pink Floyd album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, but filtered through their own colour spectrum; the Pink Floyd connection went beyond mere sonic hat tipping, since Alice Cooper played host to Pink Floyd on the British band's first U.S. tour.&rdquo;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/JyX2IJGdlRI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 25 Dec 2018 01:52:56 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/books/martin-popoffs-pink-floyd-album-by-album.html"Pink Floyd in Objects" - Glenn Poveyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~3/Blv68RRAxqA/pink-floyd-in-objects-glenn-povey.html
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AngloCelt.ie (https://www.anglocelt.ie/news/roundup/articles/2018/08/24/4160852-antique-shop-dealers-brush-with-luck/).
The artwork in question goes up for auction tomorrow in a sale at Bonhams in London with a guide price of &pound;3000-5000, alongside some other Pink Floyd items, including a marching hammer animation cel, a couple of the Floyd's touring flight cases, and a contact sheet print from A Momentary Lapse Of Reason's cover photo shoot.
Syd's artwork though is arguably the prime item amongst them, and below, you can find out the background to its recent discovery... UPDATE: the painting sold for &pound;8150 (&euro;9003) on December 11th at Bonhams.
A local antique dealer has had an incredible brush with luck after a &euro;50 painting bought at auction was found to be the work of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, and could be worth up to five figures.
Maggie Mathews of the ironically-named 'Junk' in Virginia, [County Cavan, Ireland], says she was drawn to the roughened composition of a young girl when perusing items at one of Dublin's weekly bric-a-brac auctions.
It was her eyes that drew me in. She was sitting on a table, filthy and covered in dust, as if you weren't supposed to see her really, Maggie explains, of a painting that otherwise could have been destined for the dump.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brain-damage-news/~4/FnjM_F9o0ls" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:27:25 +0100http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/antique-shop-dealer-s-brush-with-luck-syd-barrett-painting.html